I’m wondering if a printable list of the established events might be useful – they’d be like flyers to hand around or post on Notice Boards. This would be especially useful for the upcoming OpenCoffees as many of the companies who attend have no idea that there are related events in town.

Would anyone be up for drafting a nicely-presented list of the established events? Perhaps a simple alphabetic listing, 1 line summary, website, date? Inspiration for listings here at Sussex Digital.

If someone did a nice listing and it had your company logo on the bottom, it strikes me that it would be a fair exchange of your design-time for some helpful exposure, whilst helping the events community.

The aim of our OpenCoffee is to get the start-ups in the Innovation Centre talking to people in Brighton and vice versa. Matt Weston runs the excellent Business Bricks (Upcoming listings) every Friday in town (at the RedRoaster or Mad Hatter) so we knew that the idea works – and our first event was a grand success and will be repeated next Thursday.

I remember 13 people – 5 were SInC companies, 5 were Brighton companies who knew little about SInC, 3 were academics from the University. Some of the companies:

Linc’s talk is a change from our regular software talks as the response box is a hardware system. Linc showed us how he designed and produced these boxes which improve upon the current state of the art. The boxes have a Mac-like feel to them and are rather nice to look at.

Linc says:

“He is happy to give advice on small-run electronics manufacturing or just low volume manufacturing in general. He is also open to collaborations with people who have an idea for a product (electronic or otherwise) but no experience in manufacturing.”

Jane has some great photos (including one of me that should never have seen the light of day) under the Â£5 App flickr tag.

Pitches:
I presented my thoughts on a skills-board that I think would benefit Brighton. – more on this in a future blog post. Next Danny and Ben presented their ideas for ArtMeddler where artists can show how they develop their work.

Our 4th meeting is almost here, Linc Smith will be talking about his Mac-inspired ‘button box’ – a custom-built box used for timing-experiments with medical folk (it looks like a Steve Jobsian arcade controller).